The new Chinese web-petitioning system suffered launch failure, crashing on the very day it went live. WSJ Reporter Josh Chin tells us why the website drew widespread criticism from Chinese netizens.

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... the the ... fishing gear off slumps the new online system of people it's a lot to comply ... yet the system crashed on its last day ... Johnny me now to discuss this is John Hsing ... and a tablet and a real-time plot ... Iger's Wilma people's response is where twenty ten about this new system ... the responses online in China ... as they often are when it comes to sort of the Chinese government sort of online effort to switch ... barely skeptical ... but the keynote at the Chinese Internet population is is is is a deeply cynical ... a group of people ... and a sort of to the view these things as the sort of bomb ... of PR exercises on the part of the government ... I so love and EU and ... a half and about one given that I ... have read ... in the Mr. adult line is that this may actually prevent people from going to safety ... I read so so basically any of the part of the effort to deal with it essentially you ... know did the petition office in Beijing it's called the Bureau of letters and visits to its official man ... CEZ's old traditions going back centuries of people ... you know who was sort of experience ... injustice ... locally were dealing with local government ... officials to come to Beijing ... there were the past was basically to sort of petition directly to the Emperor ... I'm now ... the ideas that people are coming and bringing their ... other complaints directly to to the central government ... and you know the problem with this is ... from the perspective of local government says it makes them look very very bad ... you have lots of people flooding into Beijing ... I also know from the central government's perspective it's all so it's it's you know it's it's it's um it's the tricky thing to have a huge population ... of people ... in which complaints ... and in some ... pretty with feelings of injustice living in ... Beijing ... so the so the idea behind this system part of me is that you know to to sort of made it ... so that these people will not come to Beijing they don't have to come to the aging ... of the can they can lodge their complaints online ... the problem with that is according to some people now is that you know this is the new in order to register complaints through the system ... I have to be up to the user real Mandarin or ... state issued ID number ... miss of evil or concern that by doing that ... the system to be tipping off people to pay off local government officials is who's complaining ... and they ... may lead to some retribution ... and it's not a healthy is to become like transparency that ... is that this button on the Friday Friday you don't see anything about a lot of people are complaining about ... us only to the max ... it's the maybe not difference from liking that idea fell ... write write exactly known that the kinds of evil ... you mean the ... the the ... the the petition offices is valid that every single ... complaint it is registered a recent addition its registered through the system ... will will get a response ... arrived and that remains to be seen ... but ideas of seven people pointed out that you know it even if ... you ... can still physically to the petition office in Beijing ... Olam oftentimes don't give a response ... so ... do presumably with the with with this on my system to begin getting ... getting an even higher volume of ... of of petitions so ... so there's quite a bit of skepticism as to whether that's can or ... and ... you know as as as we mentioned a blog post the system crashed ... on its first day presumably ... because of the because of ... the wave of traffic ... Ryan also yesterday there was no lying saying there is a full member on the left side ... yes when the real cost of coal and actually fit them into the twenty fifth ... so some flight Tennessee on the way to go on this issue here ... is is way guilt for the last two channel ...